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    September 1, 2021

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March 2011
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  • The crimes of occupation

    Jim Ramey reviews Aftermath: Following the Blood of America's Wars in the Muslim World by Nir Rosen

  • Gaza’s nightmare shows the truth about Israel

    Hadas Thier reviews Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Palestine Conflict by Moustafa Bayoumi and Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

  • The planet and the profit system

    Chris Williams reviews The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York

  • Ways of resistance in Latin America

    Jason Farbman reviews Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America by Ben Dangl and Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes by S. Sándor John
January 2011
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  • Trotsky—truth and fiction

    Paul Le Blanc reviews Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bernard Patenaude; Trotsky: A Graphic Biography by Rick Geary; The Ghost of Leon Trotsky by Louis Young-Tulin; In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal by Meaghan Delahunt; The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver; The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination by Lillian Pollack; Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service; Trotsky by Geoffrey Swain; and Trotsky by Ian Thatcher
November 2010
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  • Engels at the margins

    John McDonald
September 2010
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July 2010
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  • Getting slaves to market

    Greg Love reviews The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker and Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie Smallwood

  • Lenin’s Marxism

    Paul D'Amato reviews Lenin’s Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Movement by Neil Harding
May 2010
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  • The next debt bubble

    Petrino DiLeo reviews The Buyout of America: How Private Equity will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis by Josh Kosman

  • Eyewitness to revolution

    Dennis Kosuth reviews The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer

  • Women in the American gulag

    Lee Wengraf reviews Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States edited by Rickie Solinger, Paula Johnson, Martha Raimon, Tina Reynolds and Ruby Tapia

  • Real data on same-sex marriage

    Ragina Johnson reviews When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-sex Marriage by M. V. Lee Badgett
March 2010
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January 2010
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January 2010
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  • The sexual revolution

    Christopher Phelps reviews Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf
September 2009
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  • Humanitarian imperialism and its apologists

    Ashley Smith reviews The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War by Conor Foley; Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani; Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War by Jean Bricmont; Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law by China Miéville; and The Liberal Defense of Murder by Richard Seymour

  • Debating how to change the world

    Eric Kerl reviews Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic
July 2009
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  • Why race still matters

    Brian Kelly reviews How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger

  • Soldiers against war

    Martin Smith reviews Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War by Richard Stacewicz and Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • The crisis and its roots

    Petrino DiLeo reviews The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff

  • Early U.S. sex radicals

    Sherry Wolf reviews Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917 by Terence Kissack

  • Design flaws

    Phil Gasper reviews Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher and Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York
May 2009
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